The Call of Chambercombe.
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- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/ACC
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chronicle Press, 1959-01-01. Reprint 1959. Hardcover. VG++/VG++/ACC. Box 57 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1959* Publisher: The Chronicle Press.* Binding and cover condition: Green paper covered boards with dark green title to face. No bumps or rubs, very little aged. VG++* Jacket condition: Green & white paper dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing no shelf price. Severe shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with some loss to back cover. Spine folds heavily rubbed. ACC.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear. Coloured endpapers, no marks to text, fore edge slightly aged otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 140 pp. text. no index at rear.* Description: Thousands of holiday-makers visit this show-place, a bit of old-England, which is situated less than a mile from Ilfracombe. It has not always been a farmhouse, for in 1162 it was the manor residence of Sir Henry de Champerdowne or Chambernon. The Manor or ?living? of the Champernownes until the fifteenth century when the branch of the family became extinct, afterwards passing through the families of Polglass, Herles and Bonvilles to the Duke of Suffolk and by his attainders to the Crown. Lady Jane Green is said to have slept in one of the rooms of the manor House when on a visit to the Champernownes.* A NEAR FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS in poor dust jacket.* 0
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 493
- Title
- The Call of Chambercombe.
- Author
- ----
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/ACC
- Edition
- Reprint 1959
- Publisher
- Chronicle Press
- Date Published
- 1959-01-01
- Pages
- 140
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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